Thursday, November 23, 2006

What many people don't know about Thanksgiving is that after the Pilgrims and Indians had a delicious meal, they played a grueling 2-overtime thriller with the Indians winning 4-3, on Chief Triple Deke's second goal of the game.Mario Lemieux was the referee.

Chief Triple Deke and little known Pilgrim at the time Gordie Howe were named MVP's of the first Thanksgiving game.

The wager on the game was that whoever won would assume the rights to the land.Wow, the white man going back on his word...Michael Richards will have fun with that.

But in the true spirit of Thanksgiving, here is what we are truly thankful for:

Mario Lemieux

Sidney Crosby

Evgeni Malkin

Student rush

Hot girls

Heroes

Arby's

AOL Instant Messenger

Steelers 2005 Super Bowl season

Blogspot.com

Wendy's 99-cent menu

Dan Potash

2 for $3 Gatorades

Our parents

Sunoco

Hot water

Annabelle, the God-daughter of the Pensblog

Alcohol

The 2006-07 Flyers being a joke.

Little League tournament games at Peterswood Park in Peters Township

Jobbers

Our respective dogs, Joey and Rocky

Mighty Ducks 1,2,3

Hoss's salad bar

Jay Caufield

"The Hey Song"

The Mellon Arena

Sudden Death

Jagr (before his "dying alive" quote)

Kevin Stevens before and after his drug problems

Ulf

Ron Francis

Frank Pietrangelo's save on Petr Stastny

Tom Barasso's performance in Game 3 against the Blackhawks in 1992

The Stanley Cup in 1991

The Stanley Cup in 1992

Jim Paek

The Internet (thanks to Al Gore for inventing it)

HTML

Mike Lange

Sheetz

Isle of Capri

Cellphone chargers

Our vehicles starting every morning

Adobe Flash

Chris Antypas

Gabe Antypas

Hot Pockets

And lastly, we are thankful for our readers.We cannot thank you enough.Coming up with this stuff for the blog is fun, but it's nice to laugh with other people rather than by ourselves at 2:00 in the morning.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there, unless you're not a Penguins fan. In that case, we hope you choke on dry stuffing and your brother bangs your wife.

Finally, a little known fact is that turkey was not even eaten at the first Thanksgiving.They ate venison and duck.Don't ask how we know; we just do.